>What is incredible to me, is that almost nobody in all this years (and are many, many years!) have used and reported this limitation to Microsoft.
>
>We now must just live with this limitation, but thanksfully there is the workaround of the UPDATE-SQL y someone needs this high limit :-)
Seems like a classic edge- or corner-case to me. In earlier versiohs of FPW/VFP users likely would have hit the former 2048 character command-line limit, so be forced to work around by:
- use multiple REPLACE commands
- something else, maybe like SCATTER/GATHER [array]
So, when the command-line limit was raised to 8,192 they didn't care, they already had something that worked.
Regards. Al
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